]]>https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/award-winners-at-swchsmun-2016/feed/0swcmunimg_4663img_4678img_4718img_4735img_4723img_4709img_4700img_4746img_4740img_4750img_4758img_4759img_4765img_4769United for Africahttps://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/united-for-africa/
https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/united-for-africa/#respondThu, 27 Oct 2016 15:50:55 +0000http://swcmun.wordpress.com/?p=2126Continue reading "United for Africa"]]>You may have heard about this at SWCHSMUN, but just in case you didn’t here is some information about “United for Africa” from one of its organizers Roy Zhang:

We’re a student-founded, student-led charitable initiative that seeks to improve the lives of orphaned and abandoned children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our initial fundraising goal is $20 000 CAD, which will allow for the construction of an orphanage in Kisii, Kenya. I personally visited Kisii this summer to ensure that the appropriate measures are in place if and when we construct the orphanage.

Currently, we are looking for students and teachers interested in starting an United For Africa club at their schools, to help raise awareness and funds for our cause. Club members will receive volunteer work experience, the opportunity to make a real difference in the world, and will also be invited to a volunteering trip in August 2017 to Kenya. Students interested in taking a leadership role can apply through a form on our website (Under: Join Us!), and interested teachers can email me at RoyChenZhang.rz@gmail.com

]]>https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/united-for-africa/feed/0swcmunCommittees at SWCHSMUN 2017https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/committees-at-swchsmun-2017/
https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/committees-at-swchsmun-2017/#respondMon, 24 Oct 2016 00:33:10 +0000http://swcmun.wordpress.com/?p=2122Continue reading "Committees at SWCHSMUN 2017"]]>Here are the committees that will be simulated at next year’s conference:

]]>https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/committees-at-swchsmun-2017/feed/0swcmunThanks for coming to SWCHSMUN 2016!https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/thanks-for-coming-to-swchsmun-2016/
https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/thanks-for-coming-to-swchsmun-2016/#respondSun, 23 Oct 2016 17:42:33 +0000http://swcmun.wordpress.com/?p=2120Continue reading "Thanks for coming to SWCHSMUN 2016!"]]>We had 23 schools participate in our sixth annual Model UN conference, and over 500 delegates in 10 different committees, both records for our conference. I’d really like to thank all of the Model UN faculty advisors for their participation, and for all of the students from the participating schools for your preparation and organization. I’d also like to thank the following people and groups: Volunteer Churchill for providing volunteers to work as parliamentary pages in the committee rooms, help with registration and set-up for the opening ceremonies in the Main Gym. I’d also like to thank our Chargée d’Affaires Amanda Leong, who, along with Fazeela Mulji helped to organize our Volunteer Churchill pages. I’d like to thank our USGs for Policy Abdul Al-Shawwa and Aksh Ravishankar for proofreading the and editing the background guides that the Staff wrote for all of the committees. I’d like to thank Emily Yu, Kathy Li and Laura He (and many others) who worked as USGs for Conference Services for making sure that all of the placards were sorted out for our 10 committees, it’s a thankless job that may go unnoticed by delegates, but without that level of diligence and organization the committees would not run smoothly. I’d like to thank our USG for Information Services Riley Baker for all of his work to make registration a smooth process. We’ve never had to register so many participants at our conference before, and with out Riley’s work it wouldn’t have been possible. I’d like to thank our USG for Administration Pranav Khosla who acted as the emcee at both the opening and closing ceremonies and made sure that any emerging issues were taken care of as the conference was up and running. I’d also like to thank our Chief of Operations Alisia Chen for all of her hard work, running the country draw meeting, and sending out invoices to all of the faculty advisors. I’d also like to thank Griffins Masati for all of the work that he did in preparing the chairing documents that were used consistently across all of the committees. Although he wasn’t a member of the Secretariat, Griffins’ contribution shouldn’t be overlooked, and it was appreciated. Special thanks to my Chief of Staff Chris Hoang, who has put in a tremendous amount of work training Churchill delegates and the staff. Chris put together an amazing chairing script and created training videos for both our delegates and our Staff members. He was also responsible for making the movie trailer for the closing ceremonies (which we’ll post on the conference website soon). I’d like to thank all of the Staff for SWCHSMUN 2016: Didi Moffat, Jonah Feng, Shagufta Farheen, and Amy Li for their amazing work in the largest committee at the conference GA 3 SOCHUM. Fazeela Mulji, Shriya Gundala, Ruha Javed, and Amanda Leong for staffing ECOSOC. The IAEA committee was staffed admirably by Shalaka Dixit, Laura He, Faizaan Khan, and Abdul Al-Shawwa. Another one of large committees was UNESCO which was expertly staffed by Pranav Khosla, Somith Das, Vish Sharma, and Roy Zhang, thank you! We had an amazing group working in our UN Security Council, thanks to Nicole Schmidt, Jasmine Ke, Hanbo Yu, Amrita Jejurkar, Jack Dai, Khalil Mulji, and Anikait Panniker. Thank you to our UNODC staff members Joan Chu, Avanti Karkhanis, Adibba Adel, and Mitali Pradhan. Thanks to our OAS staff too Riley Baker (who also worked as a crisis director for the JCC), Shirin Banerjee, Fatima Saleem, and Chris Ng. Thanks to the UNEP staff Emily Gubski, Griffins Misati, Jennifer Pfeil, and Jasmeet Khatkar. Thanks to our joint crisis council staff which brought the Chinese Civil War to life: Chris Hoang, Ryan Song, Alisia Chen, Michael Xie, Danielle Leong, Lucy Kim, Michael Wu, Geoff Hilton, Yasemin Ahmed, YaHeng Su, and Menna Elzairy. I’d also like to thank Ms. Margaret Jones for helping with registration and set-up in the Main Gym on Friday, and to my fellow Model UN Faculty Advisor at Churchill, Mr. David MacGregor. Let’s do it all again one year from now!

Kevin Gilchrist

Sir Winston Churchill High School Model UN Faculty Advisor

]]>https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/thanks-for-coming-to-swchsmun-2016/feed/0swcmunFlow of Debate in Crisis Committeeshttps://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/flow-of-debate-in-crisis-committees/
https://swcmun.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/flow-of-debate-in-crisis-committees/#respondTue, 18 Oct 2016 22:17:11 +0000http://swcmun.wordpress.com/?p=2117]]>This document will give you a general idea of the flow of debate as it occurs in a crisis committee. Delegates are encouraged to print this document off and add it to your research binder.